PAM Authentication For Apache KodeKloud Engineer Task Success

Question:   a. We want to use basic authentication.

 b. We do not want to use htpasswd file base authentication. Instead, we want to use PAM authentication, i.e Basic Auth + PAM so that we can authenticate with a Linux user.

 c. We already have a user rose with password B4zNgHA7Ya which you need to provide access to.

Please Note :-  Perform the below commands based on your question server,  user name & other details that might differ. So please read the task carefully before executing it. All the Best 👍

Solution:  

1. At first login on app server  ssh tony@stapp01

 2. Switch to  root user : sudo su -

 3. Run Below command to install  PWAUTH

     yum --enablerepo=epel -y install mod_authnz_external pwauth 

4. Edit the  vi /etc/httpd/conf.d/authnz_external.conf  file and Added below lines end of config file & Save it ( Refer to the Video for more clarity )

<Directory /var/www/html/protected>

AuthType Basic

AuthName "PAM Authentication"

AuthBasicProvider external

AuthExternal pwauth

require valid-user

</Directory>

5. Run the Below command to create a protected directory & cat the index.html file

mkdir -p /var/www/html/protected

cat /var/www/html/protected/index.html

6. Post saved config file , start the httpd services

systemctl start httpd

7.  Validate Apache HTTPd running  as per the task request

Please Note :- I have shown only for stapp01. 

You have to do this in all app server stapp01,stapp02, stapp03. 

8.  Click on Finish & Confirm to complete the task successfully

Happy Learning!!!!

Apart from this if you need more clarity,  I have made a  tutorial video on this , please go through and share your comments. Like and share the knowledge